The Headgum Podcast - 62: Worst Episode Yet (w/ Shelby Wolstein!)

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

Fellow Headgum podcaster Shelby Wolstein (Keeping Records) joins Johnny, Marika, and Geoff to discuss natural light, mentorship, and international applause!BUY THE HEADGUM PODCAST MERCH!Advertise on The Headgum Podcast via Gumball.fmRate The Headgum Podcast 5-stars on Apple Podcasts.Join the Headgum Discord.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. Previously on the HeadGum Podcast. I think I'm great at everything I do. Nice. How do you, I'll cut, Ferris cut this part out, but how do you be confident, man? I feel like you're really confident and I want to learn how to be that. I don't think this is like the best place to be asking this question, especially considering like, I don't know, your co-workers and to be asking this question, especially considering like,

I don't know your coworkers and probably people you want to be respected by are on this call right now. Right? No, for sure. And it's not that I'm not confident Marika, but it's just like, I want, I want people to feel that,

that energy. What do you have to be confident about? Like, I want to say to just be yourself and believe. Don't talk to Johnny like that. I was talking to you. Like you're a're a nobody man you have nothing going for you so like when you say i want to be confident like you have to have something to be confident in and don't stare around the room like you're trying to like fucking justify why i would have any pride in myself you don't have any pride in yourself nor should you have any pride in myself. You don't have any pride in yourself, nor should you have any pride in yourself. You're ugly on the inside and out. So confidence, I guess, comes in one, being a better

person and two, believing in that. Okay. Cause I was wondering if maybe it was the chicken or the egg and I hear you, but I just was wondering if it was the chicken or the egg thing where like, oh, maybe if I'm confident, you know, I'll attract the right things. It's not a chicken and the egg. It's just a chicken thing. And you are an egg. Everybody wants a love song I want one too The words they don't come out right

When it's about you If there were poets hanging around us When you told me your name They wouldn't know what to do Cause the feelings I was feeling, dear, the written word can never attain. Still, I don't have a clue. Most of these people don't care if they sing along to something shit. But I would never put you through that.

Everybody wants a love song. I want one too. But I would never put you through that. Everybody wants a love song. Love song. I want one too. But the words, they don't come out right. When it's about you. New Music Friday. That's awesome. Yeah.

New Music Friday. That was Johnny Villa's villa's oral debut yeah i want to say thank you thank you for playing that uh but you did not have my express permission to play it on uh this podcast so my lawyers will be in touch holy shit um yeah what's your company name do they have pretty whack pretty whack pretty whack here's the thing i saw you post this and i thought it was a musical comedy song and then i listened to it and i was like oh this is actually just like good thank you it is good yeah i'll say that thank you you know what even though you know jeffrey jeffrey thank you for that i was about to share a moment with shelby and all the she's were drowning me out all right which we do have to sort of celebrate in a way

in a way in a way interesting um pretty whack do you want to plug it do you want to talk about it at all or are you embarrassed? I'm not really embarrassed. Because it's good. Thank you. It would be bad if you started a company that you're embarrassed of, right? Yeah. It would be bad. Also, yeah, can you explain that?

How is it a company? I thought it was just a song. All right, so let's pull back the curtain just a little bit. So, don't, you know, we don't have to play it again um so my favorite thing is the song visualizer where it comes in from the side and it's clearly like 2006 oh yeah that like i've been watching so much like old school mtv that like that was the big inspiration but yeah pretty whack is my fictional company in which uh we have an unlimited amount of money to have a cloning facility and create

an industry plant genetically. So yes, this is my industry plant. Okay. Sorry. Are you looking for something? You good? I don't want to have any more dead air. I was waiting for someone else to say anything. Aren't you in charge?

In theory, but nobody wants to be in charge. Nobody wants to be the president. You invited me here. Okay. We should say that I invited you because Amir dropped out last minute. And that's why I had to text Shelby and say, hey, can you record in an hour? And she said, I'm in Silver Lake. But yeah, I can go home and

do this stupid show of yours and now he's being dead silent on air just sort of wasting time because everything that I had fucking hung on Blumenfeld now he's not here so now I'm trying to like pick up not only the pieces but also at the vibe the energy your guys's self-esteem Amir and I are a lot alike how so

short neither of you are short. I'm 5'1", dude. Oh, I thought you were like 5'4". No. I guess I just see you taller and I see Amir smaller. So we even out to like a solid 5'7". Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Major key alert. If you're searching on Etsy for vintage finds be sure you know your pit to pit measurements because that's going to be at least if you're a broad-shouldered person like me that's going to be the main thing because otherwise you're going to be restricted and it's not going to feel like a hug it's going to feel too snug it's going to feel too slim fit for your trim dick basically know your measurements for if you're shopping on vintage etsy online or anywhere do you just want to tell people you had broad shoulders?

And a trim dick. Yeah, it's very thin. Sand it down. What have you bought recently, Jeff? What's that? Never mind, man. Let's go through my Etsy purchase history. A lot of retail therapy recently, Shelby,

because my heart is broken. Uh-oh. That was a joke. It's fine. I got a vintage bowling shirt I got a vintage hams beer work shirt per our a couple weeks ago conversation Shelby when we were at Waltz Bar

and it comes with a instead of a tattoo you got a shirt I got a shirt with a custom name thing that says Rodney of course you got that what do you think he was like out of curiosity what do I think Rodney. Yeah, of course. Of course you got that. What do you think he was like out of curiosity? What do I think Rodney was like?

Yeah. He was a piece of shit, but I loved him to death. Union guy. Yeah, big union energy. Big union energy. Which we hate, right? Yeah, fuck a union.

Holy, oh shit. Okay, and I'm gonna edit my voice out and you're just gonna say that. No. Wild. You heard it here first shelby wolstein marika won't let that happen let's do that let's do the out of context head gum podcast twitter account we'll tweet fuck a union hey guys i want to issue an apology about something i said earlier

it was just now yeah i didn't mean it that's the next yeah i didn't mean it. That's the next. Yeah, I didn't mean that. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Yeah. There was a call on the Reddit to stop the knocking. It was a call. Were people getting scared?

I just got this. Holy shit. Word of the week. We got it. Was I? I knew it. Not even nervous. Johnny just got it, too. Fuck. Perfect it I? I knew it. Not even nervous. Johnny just got it too.

Fuck. Perfect. How? 2,000. That's not ever how the game has worked. Okay. You haven't said I yet. Yeah.

Just say it. Well, I will. There we go. Fuck me. I can't even Venmo you guys the thousand. I don't even have the thousand in my checking account is the thing. Usually, I have at least a thousand and I can do it and then they send it back and i put it back in my account within the day i cannot do that today rent what's that rent yeah it's it's it's july 30th so i got rented cash that we pay our landlord who lives in the desert drives in and not usually around the first of the month but i'm

about to be in new york so i'm just gonna get the cash leave it on my desk and that's gonna be good that's gonna be fine justin and george will have to actually just justin will have to figure it out because justin's the only one in town because George is in Kiowa. I'm going to be in New York. Suddenly it's just Justin. She's home alone. New York. The Windy City. What's up? No, that's the Big Apple. Nah. That's what they want you to think.

Shelby, do you want to plug your show? Right now? No. Yeah. No. Right now because people don't listen to people's plugs. Yeah, they do. This is one of the few shows that people listen to the end of, I think. I think so because it's always so fucking off the rails. Did you want me to do it now? I feel like I just gave myself a bad rap.

I have to earn them back before I send them to my own creations. Let's hear it. Let's hear about the show. All right, I have a podcast on head gum the network if you like the way my voice sounds now it doesn't even sound like this i don't know what you're doing you'll love it on my podcast um keeping records it's called keeping records um where we talk about pop culture and aliens in space and also just talk to cool people that's sort of the whole deal back at it again with the white man. Jeff was on it recently.

So true. I was a pro-unionist. I guess listen to that if you want more chaos in your life. It was a chaotic episode. They hated all of my picks. No. Yeah. That's not what happened.

You liked one of them. You didn't say Aeoli. No. I did say Aeoli. You made a choice, which was to get offended anytime we asked a question about your pick it's sort of like oh i'm putting on the color blue we say what do you like about blue you go okay so you guys hate it yeah i didn't like all the clarifying questions well that's kind of the point of the pod is that to like move on yeah you interrupted shelby with claps it's the second one i just

we have to move on at a certain point we're 10 minutes we haven't gotten to the meat of any topical so you you did want to stop what was happening to have shelby plug her show in the middle of the podcast so really it's all been your fault up until now I feel like I'm floundering but it's because I'm getting no fucking backline support from any of the three of you Johnny's just sitting there his body's turned towards the door like he's not even gonna participate he's any second now he might head out

it's somehow night time where he is but not where Marika is and they're in the same city it's cause my apartment gets zero sunlight so I have no no there is a windowless room uh no there is a window and it is like it's not really doing much yeah it's not doing anything but i love it we're in la where there's sort of a lot of light sort of all the time oh yeah yeah

of course my my room doesn't get a lot of natural light either though that the only window is the door you have i mean even right you opened the curtain and it was pretty bright. Yeah. It's brighter on camera than it is in real life. It's really, really pretty well lit at the end of the day. Could shoot a movie in there. Wouldn't even need a lighting guy.

I've actually never seen a place with more natural light. At dusk, it's still pretty well lit. I'm actually, my breath is taken away by the natural light in that room. We should say that the door that I was referring to is a Fleetwood door that slides into the wall. It should say that the door that I was referring to is a Fleetwood door that slides into the wall. It's one of the nicest rooms

anyone's ever been in. Don't say that about your own bedroom, right? I wrote that song. Keeping records. Basically, they put together their own Voyager records. Every guest kind of

puts together their own Voyager record, the golden record that was shot out to space with a turntable. How are we back here? We should introduce Marika Brownlee on the sacks, Johnny Villa.

Did you not do intro? Shelby Wolstein from the keeping records podcast, et cetera, et cetera. At Shelby Wolstein on Twitter. Listen. Hey Jeff, what happened to you this morning what happened to me this morning i recorded a different podcast and then i was asked out on a

date and uh yeah and then uh are you crying oh i was i was by a different person so i'm kind of shook and coffee anxious oh yeah can you do you have a cold brew next to you? Finished it already. First of the day. First of the day. First of many. I don't know what I'm going to do for lunch, but I'm going to do dinner.

I'm going to have penne. Are you, when is this date that you've been asked? What are you guys getting off to recently? I really wanted to know more about what your situation is. I don't know if we should talk about my love life because I don't know if the other people on the other side of it would want me to talk about any of it. You could make literally anything up. None of us know the truth.

Okay, well I was asked out via Instagram DM by a friend's friend of mine who I went to a house party with a couple weeks ago and we were kind of DMing back and forth and she asked me out on a date and I said yes and I don't know what we're going to do yet because I haven't responded.

We might drink wine in a park. We might go to a wine bar near my house. Either way, it's going to be wine. Hey, feel free to bleep this out, but was it someone you met at my house party? No, no, no, no, no. It was, you know that night that you and Caleb went to the Hollywood Hills party and you met ***? Yeah. It was that party know, that night that you and Caleb went to the Hollywood Hills party and you met.

Yeah, it was that party that you left before I got there. Nice. Okay. We love that. Yep. You do love to go out to a party and see a young girl. Sparely bought midsize. And I do want to specify that not only is this girl on fire but um she was talking about the

colloquial royal you not me specifically i don't want to meet 14 year old girls at parties i also i think really facetious about it i don't think we should i don't think i have i don't think I should have to see a teenager ever I agree they're not nice first of all first and foremost they're scary and they're not nice second of all they're too old to be cute too young to enjoy their presence

what do you mean enjoy their presence they're not interesting yet you're just kind of like okay if you're being recorded in a okay that's what you meant yeah like you're just kind of like okay major key alert if you're being recorded in a public forum watch what you say that was easy listen this whole show is falling off the fucking rails. I only have one segment prepared today because I thought Johnny was going to bring in one of his other segments

that he's had for a couple weeks. And then I said, do you want to do it? And he said no. And it was at that point, 1.25 p.m. We're recording at 1.30, so I could not come up with something new in the meantime. We have four minutes until we get to the first segment. Do you want to brainstorm together?

We can do that. I do have two segments, actually, I realize, but one of them is unbelievably offensive. I wouldn't mind participating in the offensive one. I'm going to, we'll put Johnny in the spot for sure because it actually only requires

one volunteer. And the offensive one was the one that you actually had prepared, right? No, that was the last minute one. The one that I have prepared is last and I think it'll be pretty full of claps. Shelby. What's up?, and I think it'll be pretty full of claps. Shelby. What's up?

You and I are from Cleveland. That's really true. Do you miss home? I was just there. Yes, you were. I forgot about that. What else? So that knocks off four minutes.

What else? What do you think about the name change to the Cleveland Guardians? I don't care. I think we needed to get rid of the name. Guardians would have not been my choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about how we wanted it to be Spiders, right? Spiders, big time.

The Cleveland Spiders. I said that to my mom. She was like, ew! My dad said they should be the Cleveland Misers because they don't want to spend any money. That was his whole thing. Because they don't want to spend any money. That was his whole thing. Because they don't want to spend any money on players. Yeah, like they keep trading away good players

because they want to not pay them. That's, I guess, the deal. I don't really understand. Well, it's a family business. The business of baseball. Yeah. And who could? It's really complicated. There's AAA, AA, the A's. There's all the A's. There's a battery for every league. I've always said that.

Speaking of, do you guys have any spare MLB batteries? Ooh. It's all right to laugh and enjoy yourself on the show i know everybody's always on edge every time they're guesting on it because they don't know what's coming next but i'm just saying if you find something funny just laugh it's all right you're just making me really sad for you sad for you no oh buddy that's so much worse opulence of this natural light no i mean that is though but you keep hiding that so i keep forgetting it's there and just, you know, hearing you, seeing you. On a first date.

No, I'm like, I'm trying to be happy. It's just like, I keep hearing your thoughts on things and it makes me so sad for you. I keep kind of hearing how you're sort of panicking about not knowing what to do on the show and how you didn't prepare and how I'm sort of a last minute guy. There's a lot going on and it's making me

sad, but I'm happy to be here and I'm happy to support you in any way that I can. You just need to ask for help when you need it, I think. Marika and Johnny agree. Yeah. That's a huge, huge lesson in life.

I think someone had to tell you, Joe, it's hard. Cause I never had a mentor, you know, like all the three of you guys have had people kind of take you under their wing. Have,

I mean, first of all, you've been an intern at this company for five years. It's a definition of mentorship right like comedy idols make videos with you i've watched amir like pat you on the back and just say i'm really proud of you what would you call that when he does that in terms of my tenure at the company i would say that that that's more ponying up the dough, you know, making money as it were. Okay.

Not so much mentorship because mentorship implies, you know, the innocence of doing it just for believing in a young person wanting to help them because somebody helped you. You know, if you start a small business, you didn't build that. Someone else helped you with that along the way. What's this podcast about? This show is about... Oh God, if we can sum it up. I want everybody to go around and say what they think this show is, and god if we can sum it up i want everybody to go around and say what they think the show is but and i'll go last marika um i mean like first so i can set the tone yeah go first this show is about redefining what it means to hear oral so it is about

wavelength hit your drums in a certain way that can't help but if not be orgasmic, at least eargasmic. It's about topical events, which is a redundant way of phrasing it. It's about the news. It's about what's not in the news. It's about what they won't tell you. It's about what they already told you. It's about memes that are about 14 years old. it's about memes that are about 14 years old it's about memes that are about seven years old it's about themes of the day and connecting with people in that most intimate of ways i've never heard someone say so

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I feel like... How am I doing as a guest you're doing great awesome Johnny I feel like this show is more or less uh everybody but the host hanging out but the host the host wants to be involved so much that he nags everyone in a way that makes them uncomfortable what i'm hearing is it's like a kinder because i asked the question so now i'm just trying to sum it up it's it's a first grade birthday party where a kid didn't get invited and the mom said please my son let's call him jeffrey doesn't have a lot of friends it would mean so much if he came and the party ended up being kind

of he doesn't leave right he stays for the sleepover part of the party and it's the best friends and that kid let's call him jeffrey and and they're all hanging out and they're kind of like yeah what's up yeah i think also and to credit jeffrey a little bit i think it's like the guests initially wanted to hang out with him like the kids of the sleepover did want to invite him but he got there with such energy and like bad vibes that they immediately regretted it why are you making that face he's about to vomit i think at the end of the day like this is it's interesting because we're four humans coming together to make uh something worth a damn and it's it's a forum if anything else it's like in the true you know Roman tradition so I think it's time that we get to our

first segment in a certain way how in a certain way just get to the segment right I'm sorry. I've listened to these songs, these intro songs for so many times that now they're starting to really grow on me. I'm starting to really like them. So it's hard to transition from that sentence into what this segment is. This is the borderline offensive one but i think it's actually gonna have a good good public messaging all right perfect maybe we shouldn't do this um i'm gonna cut this out

i don't know why we even started this. I just, if I knew we were doing this, I probably wouldn't have signed on to the episode. Alright. In a PR type way. It was genuinely offensive? Yeah.

Alright. This is kind of a first for what is it first blood I'm fucking floundering I wrote what I thought was a pretty good segment now everybody's staring at me at the eyes like I did something

wrong Johnny participated staring at me at the eyes like i did something wrong johnny staring at me at the eyes staring me at the eyes and i'm just like i don't know what else i mean i gotta lighten the mood a little bit here we go thank you yeah really good because you guys are bringing this energy it's hit me like a freight train yeah i'm back all right get vaccinated guys jeff doesn't like when I hold the mic really casually I hate when you do this she leans back in her desk chair and holds it like she's like

I don't know like Dave Chappelle where he like sits down and does stand up but it's not even stand up it's just storytelling do you guys think it looks cool? no you're also taking up like a twelfth of the frame your neck to the top of your head holding the microphone

and the rest is a blank wall in your house isn't this your cat's room you think my cat has a massive room a master room yeah no this is my office okay all right very good very good very good johnny you think this looks cool i think this looks pretty cool uh and i'm i'm willing to stand in solidarity with the 12th of the frame type thing. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll for sure do that too. It's not necessarily a good thing, especially for audio, because people can't see this.

It's such a visual gag. You know, you're recording this. We are recording. Yeah. And the fans have been clamoring for a video version of this. Yeah. This isn't going to be the clip that we clip out. I just want to make that very clear. What do you think the clip will be so far it'll be uh me making johnny

great Are you going to cut some of the sound clips from your board? Like when they don't get a response that's positive. Yeah, I do. It's time to remove them. Welcome to Map of Claps. Have you guys ever played Map of Claps? No. I don't know what that means. Okay.

Map of Claps is a game where I'm going to play some sound clips of applause from around the world and you have to place it on a map basically just tell me what the country of origin is of the applause does that make sense yes okay frightening moments aboard an air asia X flight, the plane violently shaking mid-flight over the Indian Ocean. The Airbus A330 carrying over 350 passengers heading to Malaysia was forced to return to Australia after engine trouble. Don't look shocked at what you've done. Don't cover your mouth. Map of claps.

Where does that one come from in the world? Malaysia. Technically, it was international waters over the Indian Ocean, but it was also a trick question. That wasn't claps. That was a news story about a shaking plane. Huh. All right.

Next one. Alright, next one. England. Poland. Yeah, that sounds like an England type thing. Also, we guess until we get it right. Spain. Turkey. Germany.

Italy. Italy. Canada. Brazil. Ukraine. Can I get a country of origin? I just give it to you. Australia. I just give it to you um Australia Seattle

can we get a region Seattle's a city in theory Seattle might be the closest geographically to this place closer than Canada um or Russia well actually Russia would be white hot,

depending on the way you look at it. Ukraine. Depending on the way... Do you want to hear it again? Out of curiosity, do you think... Johnny? North Macedonia? You were so close.

Out of curiosity, do you think Alaska is its own country? It's not Alaska. Johnny was pretty close. He said North Macedonia. One of those words is right. Okay, so South Macedonia. No.

Macedonia. No. It's North something. North Wales. What is happening? We're guessing the country of origin of applause. North is correct is the one hint I'll give you. North Korea?

Correct. There we go. That was actually my first guess, but I was like, there's no way they'd be cheering. They have to. All right, here we go. They were told to. so there's a lot of people yeah that i can say for sure long applause maybe like a standing ovation correct but we were looking for country of origin yeah we're trying to yeah we're trying to not hear the beep as much so we're just sort of brainstorming together this is like family feud when you're sort

of how wowing was this at a theater no okay maybe like a sporting event no was this at a bar it's at a government um thing so england no but this country also has parliament yeah that's what you know you did have to sort of believe it had to be parliament you know yeah you could tell by the way they were cheering parliament was i thought gonna give it away that's actually a better segment parliament or nah so it's either things that happened in a parliament or not i want to do that next week Denmark see I don't know where other parliaments are so anything I guess

is just going to look dumb you're not a fucking IR major no one expects you to know all the countries that have parliament is it in Europe no it's not in europe is it yeah why don't we narrow it down by continent africa no south america no that's it so it's in Asia. Or Australia.

Or New Zealand. That's all the continents. We didn't say North America. You didn't say North America. Is it Canada? Correct! That was the Canadian sergeant at arms honored with a heroic applause

after he killed a 24-year-old. Great. So this is a soccer game. Yeah, it sounds like a soccer game. Correct. England. We have yet to see England. Spain. Italy.

Argentina. Brazil. Is this in South America? It's in Europe. Mexico. It's in Asia. God. I'm getting tinnitus playing this game.

It's Japan? I'm getting tendonitis from having to press wrong so much on my keyboard okay you're not giving us any attaboys any help i did i said correct it's in asia oh okay well and i'm trying to think of because they're they have a good job uh uh south korea thailand's the most geographically close one you've said. India? Colder. The Philippines? White hot, but incorrect.

Fiji? Same area. Bali? A little bit closer to the Philippines. What's near the Philippines? Yeah, I feel like I'm letting my ancestors down right now you're letting my ancestors down oh you're Filipino specifically

no but is it Malaysia correct I was going to guess that alright here we go I might not know geography, but I know my guy, Jeff. This is America.

United States of... That's absolutely correct. Do you want some more context for that one? Back in the business of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap. So difficult. please clap. God, so defeated. England.

This is a polite people, mostly white. Only half of that was correct. They're definitely not polite. But they're mostly white. They're German. That's correct. Wow. They're not polite polite. But they're mostly white. They're German. That's correct. Wow. They're not polite, but they are obedient.

They're speaking in English. Okay. A lot of places do. It sounds like it's in an airplane. Sounds like a subway. International Waters. It sounds like it's in an airplane. Correct! International Waters. Yet again, that one was a Karen being kicked off an airplane for not wearing a mask.

In international waters. Correct. Well, I guess... International skies. International skies. They land in the plane. They land in the water landing. But she got it. But they kicked her off.

In the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. These are people that aren't getting enough credit Often as a people Maybe I don't know It's kind of maybe directly down the middle I think they get enough credit I was thinking this sounds like the first responder clapping That was happening That's correct that is absolutely correct

But where in the world Oh Italy I'd say Fuck US France France is white hot Switzerland say fuck us france france's white heart swiped to the wrong direction correct that was spain last one A lot of whistling. Unexcitable people performance. Yes.

Also, you guys guessed this one on the first one. I think Marika guessed it. England. So it's an excitable people. They're excited. Italy. Brazil. Correct.

There we go. Really got to fill out that time. What have we done? This is unlistenable. You said this was going to be the best episode. At the time. You really did. You really did. You really did. I was trying to imbue some kind of hope into it.

Do you think you're going to put the blame on me for this? You did everything you could. This one's on me. That's awesome. Map of claps? I mean, what was that? You can tell us, man. I thought it was going to be a hit.

How? Well, I think what was exciting was that sometimes we really did get it. Yeah. Sometimes we really did guess. And at the very least, we really leaned in. There are very few times where I would keep guessing after maybe six times being absolutely horn blasted through my ears i think usually i would say yeah i would say that's enough go ahead and let me know the crazy thing is that we didn't have any from any applause from the ussr

that's them isn't it yep it feels like now people have a recorded record of us trauma bonding with you. Literally, part of me is tempted to edit out any conversation that we had during that game where it's just us. My goal was to have it just be you guys shouting out country names and me being yes or no, which is what it was for half of it.

That was your goal? But it was for half of it your goal but it was also like that was i wanted that to happen and then i wanted you guys to like tear the game apart but you really leaned in and didn't tear it apart it was an awful so you didn't like when all i did was sort of try and identify the people by their energies he didn't like it when we gave you just one single inch. Listen, we're at this point where the show is at a crossroads because we're about to go in person. We literally might record our first in-person pod next week in New York. Yeah, we should.

Oh, wow, yeah. You, me, Johnny, Jake. And Dupree. Yeah, and Dupree. Dupree Hurwitz, the third Hurwitz brother, back and better than ever. It's their dad dressed like a teen.

I think it's going to be great. The question then becomes what makes it physical? What makes it different than the Zoom recording? Do I have the soundboard? Do I give out checks? I see what you mean yeah I mean

I was still postulating physical gags what do I wear what do I show up as do I show up late do I you don't want me to show up late yeah one thing do not show up late fuck it plugs what's that what's that sound from that is an anime that i don't know i just i looked at the trending sounds should we find some new sounds here we go sure yeah yeah let's do that oh this is yep there's a lot of fart shit i sent you lebron james at one point oh my god Oh my God. Is this a TikTok one? Yeah.

I don't know. Oh, you know what? I added a new one today. It was this. This just in. Anthony Rizzo, traded to New York. Who?

Baseball player. He's talking about baseball. But it's ultimately not true, don't think plugs uh what are you guys working on point the people to social media the floors all of your guys at once do it all at once and then i'll edit them to be staggered shelby you can go first no no let's all go at once and then again ferris and i will edit it so it's staggered and everybody's heard. Why would you do that out of curiosity? To save literal time. Are you busy?

After this, I have to submit this show for a Streamy Award. Is someone submitting Keeping Records for a Streamy? How do I get that done? You can do it. Yeah, I'll do it. Nice. Thanks, Marika. I love that.

Listen. do it nice thanks Marika I love that listen I can't imagine any of you listen to this and said I want more of her but if you but if you did Shelby Wolstein on all social media and frankly keeping records on podcasts my plug is keeping records on podcasts. And frankly. My plug is keeping

records on podcasts. It's a podcast. Do you guys think I'll recover emotionally from this? I think this is the most awkward episode we've done so far. And I'm going to lean into that. But I don't know why. What am I doing wrong?

It's that I have nothing. Now my ear is ringing. And then the second one didn't turn out exactly how I wanted it to. My ear is literally ringing from the silence slash nervousness. You also have tinnitus. Plugs. Slash nervousness. You also have tinnitus.

Plugs! Follow me on Instagram. At Johnny. J-O-H-N-N-Y-V-I-I. All one word. Follow that. Or follow my company. At I am pretty whack.

W-A-C-K. I couldn't get just pretty whack. Someone else stole it. I'm going to see if I can hack into Instagram or some way to get that username back. Someone stole it I'm gonna see if I can hack into Instagram or some some way to get that username back someone stole it someone had it first yeah

someone had it first they had it first yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so he said take it back I'm willing to steal it it was a theft but

yeah I'm willing to steal it follow me on social media Twitter Instagram Letterboxd Marie K. Lahn. That's all I got.

Listen to our newest shows. Listen to Keeping Records. Scroll down. Sound Deals. Hell yeah. Newcomers Season 4. Also, everybody stream that new Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak song.

That shit is good. Which one? New, like... Yeah, there's a new one that just dropped today. I'm so tempted not to edit this episode at all other than bleeps I want people to experience this the way

that it was yeah I don't Shelby you've been on the show before yeah there was so much liveliness at Jeffrey James on Instagram at Jeff Boyardee on Twitter we'll see you guys again next week that's Daz folks Yeah, there was so much liveliness. At Jeffrey James on Instagram. At Chef Boyardee on Twitter. We'll see you guys again next week.

That's Daz, folks. That was a Hiddem Original.